Chapter 1. Common Security Problems on the Internet

By Matthew Lyons

IN THIS CHAPTER

Viruses, worms, Trojan horses, script kiddies, hackers. Late night calls to let you know that your Web site has been defaced. Is this what security means to you? Are we all doomed to follow the will of malicious teenage hackers with too much free time and not enough supervision?

It is a fact that we now live and work in a highly complex, interconnected world. There is so much complexity that it is mind boggling to attempt to fully comprehend the results that networked computing has had on our lives. While the times have changed, software practices largely have not kept up. System administrators have ...

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